by: Alejandra Cervantes . January 24,2012.

Culture and Geography Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012

Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1 "Who are the Asmat?"

The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gatherer culture in West Papua, Indonesia .

West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just north of Australia in the South PacificnOcean

The traditional Asmat are one of the last number gatherer cultures in the world

One traditional of the asmat is the piercing of the spetum

of the nose

Another tradition of the asmat culture truly a unique culture

Traditional Asmat culture is truly an awesome culture because they have piercing at thier faces and body and because they wear feathers on top of their

head

sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assimilation are deeply affecting the Asmat

Irreversibly, this is the ending of the one of earth's last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. The modern

world is talking over the Asmat.

modern world

Asmat tradition